Explainer: What's R1 & Everything Else?
Is AI making you dizzy? A lot of industry insiders are feeling the same. R1 just came out a few days ago out of nowhere, and then there’s o1 and o3, but no o2. Gosh! It’s hard to know what’s going on. This post aims to be a guide for recent AI develoments. It’s written for people who feel like they should know what’s going on, but don’t, because it’s insane out there.
Reasoning models are able to “think” before respoding. LLMs think by generating tokens. So we’ve training models to generate a ton of tokens in hopes that they stumble into the right answer. The thing is, it works.
LLMs & reasoning models alone only generate tokens and therefore have no ability to do either of these things. They need software in order to make decisions real and give it interaction abilities.
Agents are a system of AIs. They’re models tied together with software to autonomously interact with the world. Maybe hardware too.
